OSU Board of Trustees to consider tuition and fees for 2014-15

CORVALLIS, Ore. - The Oregon State University Board of Trustees will meet Thursday, March 13, on the OSU campus to approve tuition and fee levels for the 2014-15 academic year.

The meeting, which is open to the public, will run from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Willamette Room of the CH2M-Hill Alumni Center, located at 725 S.W. 26th St. in Corvallis.

The board also will review the university's funding request to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for the 2015-17 biennium, and receive updates on OSU's strategic plan revision and The Campaign for OSU, which recently topped the $1 billion landmark in fund-raising.

Additional reports to the board will be made by OSU President Edward J. Ray, the chairs of the board's Executive and Audit Committee and the Finance and Administration Committee, and the chair and executive director of the Higher Education Coordinating Commission.

On Wednesday, March 12, a meeting of the board's Finance and Administration Committee will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. in the President's Conference Room on the sixth floor of Kerr Administration Building. The committee will discuss tuition and fee levels, and OSU's funding request to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, and then consider a resolution forwarding those recommendations to the full board on Thursday. This meeting is also open to the public.

People who wish to attend either meeting and need special accommodations should contact Mark Huey in the board's office at 541-737-8260 at least 72 hours in advance.